Case Goods Warehouse and Cannery Building
55 Mill Street
Toronto, ON, M5A 3C4
Building Hours:
7am - 7pm Monday - Sunday
Artist Retail Tenant Hours:
Noon - 5pm Wednesday - Sunday
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More than a decade after its demise as a distillery, private developers purchased the former Gooderham & Worts Distillery in late 2001.

Previous attempts to redevelop this national heritage site had failed to attract enough commercial artists and financing to be viable.

Artscape was the first call made by the new owners and within months a deal on a below-market, 20-year lease was in the works for two buildings on the site.

Artscape’s involvement in the redevelopment of the Distillery District helped attract the arts community and other creative entrepreneurs to the potential of the site and virtually a year later the entire site – 440,000 square feet – had been leased.

Artscape Distillery Studios is now home to 63 work and retail studios, offices, rehearsal and performance spaces for artists, creative entrepreneurs such as Emily Hamill, Akroyd Furniture, Redeye Gallery, Lilith,Proof Studio Gallery, Tank, Millicent Vee, Tenacious, Hag Atelier, Leif Benner, Studio Fuse, DISH Gallery + Studio, and non-profit arts organizations including Prologue to the Performing Arts, Art of Jazz, Inner City Angels, Rimé Canada, Queen of Puddings , Expect Theatre/Spark Productions, Redeye Gallery, Native Earth Performing Arts, Nightwood Theatre, CAPIC, Necessary Angel Theatre, The CanDance Network, DanceWorks, Dance Ontario, Shakespeare Link Canada , Dancemakers, Volcano , Theatre Museum Canada , Nightswimming, DVxT Theatre, Pleiades Theatre, Canadian Dance Assembly, The Dance Current, Tapestry New Opera Works, Le Laboratoire d'Art (LE LABO), Modern Times Stage Company, Planet in Focus: International Environmental Film & Video Festival.

We invite you to get to know Artscape's tenants in all of our buildings by visiting our tenant website listing.